Tilting gate



Oct; 18, 1949. J. B. CLAY 2,484,980

TILTING GATE Filed Feb. 6, 1946 J'bsep ,2. 124

Patented Oct. 18, 1949 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE Clay Equipment Corporation,

Cedar Falls,

Iowa, a corporation of Iowa Application February 6, 1946, Serial No. 645,828

1 Claim. 1 The object of my invention is to provide a gate for use on farms and elsewhere, so constructed that it may be easily and quickly adjusted for tilting the free end of the gate to diflerent positions.

Thus my gate may be hung in horizontal position for ordinary use, and it can be adjusted without tools to raise the free end of the gate to clear ice or snow, or allow the free passage of small animals.

To this end I provide a gate having rigid upright end members, and with rigid longitudinal members pivoted thereto, and having a brace connected to one corner and adjustably connectible near a diagonally opposite corner of the gate.

With these and other objects in view, my invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combination of the various parts of my tilting gate whereby the objects contemplated are attained, as hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out in my claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 shows an elevation of my improved gate.

Figure 2 is a detail of a corner of the gate, showing an upright member and a horizontal member, and illustrating the means for connectingthe brace at various points on the horizontal member.

Figure 3 is a detail of one end of the brace.

Figure 4 is a detail illustrating a hook at the other end of the brace.

In the accompanying drawings, the numeral ll indicates the upright rigid member at the free end of the gate. At the other end of the gate is an upright rigid member l adapted to be hinged to a supporting post a in any suitable way. Near the bottom of the gate the members l0 and II are connected by a rigid connecting member l2, pivoted at I3 and I4 to the upright members 10 and H. Near the upper part of the gate is a rigid connecting member I'5 connecting the members I0 and H and pivoted thereto at it and I1. Members I0 and II may be connected at their upper ends by barbed wire l8 and I9 and their lower ends may be connected by a barbed wire 20, and they may be also connected by a series of wires 22, which are preferably plain wire.

As shown, the wires are connected at one end of the gate to bolts 40 extending through the upright II and provided with adjustable nuts 4| which may be used to control the tension of the wires.

Near the top of the upright member I0 is an 2 ordinary eye bolt or the like 23 on which is held a broken ring or loop 24 formed on a short rod 25.

The rod 25 is connected to a cable or wire 26 Which extends diagonally downwardly and toward the free end of the gate and is connected at its lower end to a loop 21 on a short rod 28 which has at its free end a hook 29.

The rigid members I2 and I5 may be made of pipe, as shown in Figure 2, having fittings 30 at their ends which fittings are pivoted to the uprights I0 and II.

The member 12 is provided with longitudinally spaced holes 3| near the free end of the gate to selectively receive the book 29. Ordinarily the hook 29 is inserted through a hole 3| so located that the gate will be normally held in ordinary horizontal position.

If it is desired to tilt the free end of the gate upwardly, the hook 29 may be removed and inserted into a forward hole 3|. The degree of tilting depends on the hole selected to receive the hook 29. The free end of the gate may be thus raised when desired to take care of any sagging which may have occurred in use. Or, if the gate tends to drag over snow, ice or frozen mud, the free end can be raised to clear the obstructions.

If it is desired to raise the free end high enough to allow small pigs or small animals to pass under the gate, this also can be done by adjusting the gate so as to insert the hook 29 into the proper hole.

A gate of this kind can be built very economically and the tilting adjustment of the gate accomplished without loosening any nuts and the like, and without the aid of any special tools.

On account of the construction employing the rigid uprights l0 and H and the rigid connecting members [2 and I5, pivoted to the uprights, the gate can easily be adjusted to any desired tilting position.

A particular advantage of such a gate lies in the fact that when the hinge post pulls back with the stretch of the fence, and lifts the free end of the gate, it is possible to make ready adjustment for lowering the free end to horizontal position.

It is my purpose to cover by my claim any modified form of structure or details which may be reasonably included within their scope and the scope of my invention.

I claim as my invention: 7

In a vertically tiltable gate, an upright member adapted to be hinged to a support, an upright member at the free end of the gate, vertically 3 spaced horizontal connecting members pivoted at their ends to said upright members, the lower one of said horizontal members being disposed adjacent the bottom of the gate, the combination comprising, a flexible cable secured to the upper end of the hinged upright member and extending diagonally downwardly toward the lower corner of the free end of :the gate, said flexible cable having a-h'ook at its lower end, said 'lowerhorizontal member having a plurality of horizontally spaced holes therein adjacent the free end of the gate for selectively receiving said hook whereby the tilt of the gate may be adjusted.

JOSEPI-LBJGLAY.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are .of rrecord in athe file of this patent:

Number Number UNITED STATES PATENTS Name Date Landis Mar. 1, 1910 Leech July 23, 1912 Benz Feb. 16, 1915 Mulrogan May 2, 1916 :Sommer. June 5, 1917 Boyer July 15, 1941 FOREIGN PATENTS Country Date Canada May 1, 1917 :Germany 1939 

